Domain Name News

Scotland seeks its own ccTld
THE Scottish National party is to take its campaign for independence into cyberspace by seeking to change the endings of all websites based in the country, from “.co.uk” to “.sco”. Alex Salmond, the first minister, is to lodge a formal ...

Domain Name Sales Australia Just Got Easier
So that's good news for those with great domain names. You see, in the past you haven't be able to transfer .com.au domain names unless it was with the sale of the entity that owned (or owned the license to) the domain name. ...

VeriSign Announces Increase in .Com/.Net Domain Name Fees
(Web Hosting News) VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), the leading provider of Internet infrastructure for the networked world, today announced, effective as of October 1, 2008, an increase in registry domain name fees for .com and .net, ...

Verisign yanks up domain name fees — again
If you own a “.com” or “.net” domain name, this is very bad news on all fronts. Verisign, for the second time in just 6 months, is asking every single domain name owner to shell out even more money to register, transfer or renew their ...

Asia Domain Name Registration Limited: 3G era is coming
The news was brought by the Asia Domain Name Registration Limited March 28, China Mobile announced that, starting April 1 in Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, and other eight cities start the third generation mobile communication (3 G) ...

Scotland seeks its own domain name extension
an organisation which seems to have been around since at least 2005, judging by this news story. They hit the headlines over the weekend because the Scottish National Party, led by Scotland’s First Minister, Alex Salmond, ...

Cybersquatting On The George Bush Library Name
Our lawyers all always amazed by articles such as the one in the Dallas Morning News, which highlights all of the people who have registered variations of George Bush's name, and the name of his library. ...

Scotland wants its own domain name
Along the lines of the Scottish initiative, a campaign has also been launched for .cym to become a new Welsh internet domain name and for London to be the first city in the world to be given its own “.ldn” internet domain name. ...

VeriSign Increasing Registration Fees for Domain Names
... VeriSign said traffic volume continues to increase with the emergence of consumer-driven services, the soaring number of Web-connected wireless devices, and the proliferation of technologies and services using the Domain Name System ...

Explosive Internet Market in China Captured via IDNoptions ...
PHOENIX–(BUSINESS WIRE)–IDNoptions, LLC (www.idnoptions.com), a leader in International Domain Name (IDN) acquisition, announced today an investment and strategic partnership with Monster Venture Partners (MVP), LLC and Domain ...